Chronology of the history of the United States of America

35000 to 15000 front J.C. : first migrations of Asian population of origin through the Bering Strait.
2640 av. J.C. : the Chinese astronomers Hsi and Ho would have descended the American coast by the Bering Strait.
1000 - 1002: Leif Ericsson, wire of the Viking Erik the Red, explores the coasts of Newfoundland and the Labrador and perhaps reached the North-East of the current United States.
1492 : discovered of America by Christophe Colomb.
1524 : discovered bay of New York by Giovanni da Verrazano.
1585 : foundation of an English colony on the island of Roanoke.
1607 : foundation of Jamestown (Virginia) by the captain John Smith off Jamestown.
1613 : discovered Falls of the Niagara by Samuel de Champlain.
1619 : first black slaves in the plantations of Jamestown.
1620 : the Mayflower unloads with the Cape Cod with 100 pilgrims (the Pères pilgrims) who found Plymouth.
1636 : creation of the college Harvard, close to Boston.
1647 : Peter Stuyvesant, first governor of New York.
1650 : legalization of slavery.
1692 : drive out with the witches with Salem (Massachusetts).
1718 : foundation of the New-Orleans by Pierre Moyne d' Iberville.
1775 : beginning of the War of independence of the United States of America
1776: adoption of the Declaration of Independence the July 4th.
1783 : end of the War of independence of the United States of America.
1784 : New York elected temporarily capital of the United States.
1789 : George Washington elected first president of the United States.
1812 : War of 1812
1821: election of Andrew Jackson at the post of governor of Florida on July 17th.
1823 : December 2nd, Declaration Monroe
1825: January 3rd, foundation of the community New Harmony by Robert Owen.
1828 : December 3rd, election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency of the United States
1829: March 4th, taking up the duties of Andrew Jackson
1830

Birth of the Church of Jesus-Christ of the Saints of the Last Days to Fayette (State of New York), with Joseph Smith like first president.
Indian Removal Act voted on May 28th

1831

two million slaves in the United States.
first number of the newspaper The Liberator on January 1st
insurrection of Nat Turner on August 21st

1832

crisis of the " nullification" November 24th
Re-election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency of the United States on December 5th

1833: Foundation of the american company abolitionist on December 4th.
1843 : invention of the Typewriter.
1845 : Died of Andrew Jackson to Nashville on June 8th
1847: invention of the Jean by Oscar Levi Strauss.
1849 : Gold rush in California.
1850 : Compromise of the Congress: the California enters the Union like nonslave State; Utah and the New Mexico freely decide admission or abolition of slavery (called into question of the compromise of Missouri); law on the fugitive slaves who must from now on be returned to their Master even if they are captured in a free State.
1851-1852 : Foundation of NewYork Times, Uncle Tom's cabin is published.
1854 : Law on Kansas-Nebraska, located at the North of the parallel 36e, which gives him the right to choose or refuse slavery, which cancels the Compromis of Missouri (1820).
1854 : Creation of the Republican party following the law on Kansas-Nebraska.
1857

invention of the Elevator by Elisha Otis.
Stop Dred Scott.

1860

Election of Lincoln to the presidency.
the South Carolina makes secession
the Pony Express is founded
Compromis of Crittenden

1861 - 1865: American Civil War.
1861

From January to February: The Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas leaves in their turn the Union.
4 February 9th: Convention of Montgomery: the seven States secessionists forms a Confederation, elect Jefferson Davis (former secretary with the War) with the presidency and a Constitution is adopted on March 11th.
April-June: Virginia (April 17th), Arkansas (May 6th), North Carolina (May 20th) and Tennessee make secession and enter the Confederation.
11 April 12th: First Fort Sumter rifle shots.

1862

Homestead Act
Pacific Railway Act
Morrill Land Grant Colleges Act

1864

the November 8th: Re-election of Lincoln
Massacre of Sand Creek
the Nevada becomes a state

1865

Abraham Lincoln proclaims the abolition of slavery.
April 14th: Assassination of Lincoln by an actor Southerner, the vice-president Andrew Johnson succeeds to him.
May 10th: The president Jefferson Davis is made prisoner in Georgia.
May 26th: The last forces of the South capitulate. The American Civil War ends in the victory of the northerners
: 13th amendment with the Constitution prohibiting slavery.
December: The States secessionists ask for their rehabilitation and ratify the 13th amendment.

1866

Civil Rights Act of 1866
Foundation of the Ku Klux Klan

1867 - 1868: Tenure Act Office prohibiting the president from revoking the senior officials and the members of his cabinet without authorization of the Senate. Conflict Congress/President Johnson: a procedure of impeachment fails except for a voice.
1867

the United States buy the Alaska with the Russia.
the Nebraska becomes a state

1868

Traité of Burlingame
14th amendment: exclusion of the public office of the White having taken the party of the Secession.

1870

15th amendment: prohibition to deprive of the civil laws and policies a free man “because of his race, its color or its old constraint”.
Rehabilitation of the States overcome in the Union.

1871 : creation of the National Yellowstone Park.
1872

invention of the Chewing-gum by Thomas Adams. 1st patent for the Wireless telegraphy deposited by Mahlon Loomis.
Re-establishment of the political rights of those which had been deprived by it by the 14th amendment

1875

Resumption Act
Civil Rights Act adopted by the Congress: prohibited the segregation

1876: Adventures of Tom Sawyer of Mark Twain. Invention of the Carpet sweeper by Mr. Bissel.
1877 : The last federal troops evacuate the South. The Rebuilding is finished.
1878 : Bland-Allison Act
1880 : first steel skyscraper with Chicago.
1881 : assassination of James Garfield
1882: First trust, the Standard Oil, formed by John D. Rockefeller.
1886 : invention of the Coca-Cola by John S. Pemberton. The Statue of Freedom, of Frederic Bartholdi, is offered by the France to the United States to symbolize the Franco-American friendship with New York (a copy is set up on the Pont of Grenelle to Paris).
1887

Dawes Act
Hatch Act

1889

Fondation of the National Geographic Society
Benjamin Harrison becomes president
the North Dakota, the South Dakota, the Montana and Washington becomes states

1891: Crisis of Baltimore
1895: opening of the Sea Lion Park, first American amusement park, with Coney Island.
1896

the Utah becomes a state
annexation of Hawaii

1898: War and victory against Spain in connection with Cuba
September 1901: President McKinley is wounded by an anarchist and dies of the continuations of his wounds; its vice-president Theodore Roosevelt succeeds to him.
1901-1914 : Construction of Panama Canal.
1903 : manufacture of the famous Teddy Bear by Morris Michtom, nickname with the departure given to Theodore Roosevelt which drove out the bear in the the Mississippi and which refused to kill a bear attached to a tree.
1906 : Seism of San Francisco.
1911 : 1st movie studio with Hollywood.
1912 : Movement progressist: the Republican party is divided between conservatives and progressists (Th. Roosevelt); victory of Wilson (democratic).
1913 : construction with New York of the Woolworth Building (at the time highest) by Case Gilbert.

1914 :

creation of the Paramount.
August: Proclamation of the neutrality of the United States.

1916 : 1st Store of food self-service to Memphis, Tennessee.
1921 : 1st Miss America.
1923 : creation of the Warner Bros. Pictures by Harry Warner.
1924 : the Indian Citizenship Act, American citizenship of the Indian .
1925 : Lou Henry Hoover is the first president to use the radio for its electoral campaign.
1927 : creation of the Oscar of the cinema by Louis Mayer.
1928 : Walt Disney creates the character of Mickey Mouse.
1929 : construction of the Royal Gorges Bridge, bridge highest of the world (321 m), with the top of the Arkansas in the Colorado. stock exchange Crash of Wall Street on October 24th. Opening of the MoMA to New York.
1930 : 1st Supermarket, opened with Long Island.
1931 : construction of the Empire State Building with New York.
1932 : New Deal founded by Franklin Roosevelt to give on foot the US economy.
1933 : invention of the Monopoly by Charles Darrow.
1936 : the American black athlete Jesse Owens gains four gold medals with the Olympic Games of Berlin.
1937 : first caddie (created in 1934 by Raymond Josef) tested in a store of Oklahoma City.
1939 : the fantastic Ride of John Ford. Gone With The Wind of Victor Fleming, Sam Wood and George Cukor.
1941 : attacks Japanese with Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) on December 7th. Declaration of war of the United States to the Japan on December 8th. Declaration of war of the Germany and the Italy in the United States on December 11th.
1944 : unloading combined in Normandy on June 6th.
1945 : atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 6th and 9th.
1946 : beginning of the Cold war. Winston Churchill speaks about the “Iron curtain”.
1948 : first Fast-food, created by two brothers Maurice McDonald and Richard McDonald.
1949 : birth of NATO to New York.
1950 : beginning of the Maccarthysme, crusade Anticommunist by the senator Joseph McCarthy.
1951 : construction of the Guggenheim to New York by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
1952 : beginning of the Action Painting (or abstract Expressionnisme) launched by Harold Rosenberg, which consists in projecting liquid colors (Pollock, De Kooning, Kline, Rothko).
1953 : execution of the husband Rosenberg, shown espionage.
1955 : opening of the amusement park Disneyland, in California.
1960 : beginning of the Pop Art launched by Andy Warhol.
1962 : death of Marilyn Monroe on August 5th.
1963 : Ich bin ein Berliner , historical speech of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on June 26th. Assassination of John Kennedy with Dallas on November 22nd
1964: beginning of the War of Vietnam.
1966 : foundation of the Black Panthers with Oakland by friends of Malcolm X Black Power, expression launched by Stockeley Carmichael, preaching the return of the Blacks in Africa.
1968 : assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4th. June 5th, Bob Kennedy, brother of John, also dies assassinated to him.
1969: Easy To wrinkle Hopper Refusals. First steps of Armstrong on the the Moon. Mythical concert of Woodstock, in the State of New York.
1973 : construction of the World Trade Center (417 m) to New York. Elections of the first black mayors with Los Angeles, Atlanta and Strait. Cease-fire with the Vietnam. Indian insurrection with Wounded Knee (South Dakota).
1974 : the crisis of the Watergate involves the resignation of Richard Nixon.
1975 : legalization partial of the Abortion.
1979 : nuclear accident with Three Mile Island.
1981 : attack against Reagan.
1982 : running Free Figuration inspired of the graffiti, STRIP CARTOONS and rock'n'roll. Keith Haring is one of the most famous representatives.
1984 : the Statue of Freedom is registered on the world list of the inheritance of UNESCO. Olympic Games of Los Angeles boycotted by the Eastern European countries.
1986 : the shuttle Challenger explodes on line on television, during its launching.
1987 : creation of Act Up (movement of action and support in favor of the patients of the AIDS).
1988 : gigantic fire with the National Yellowstone Park. A fifth of the park is destroyed.
1989 : Seism of magnitude 6,9 with San Francisco (55 dead).
1991 : January 17th - January 27th, war of the Gulf.
1992 : riots with Los Angeles (59 died and 2.300 wounded). Election of Bill Clinton.
1993 : April 19th, 80 members (including 25 children) of a sect millenarist, the Davidiens, have perished with Waco in the fire of their farm besieged for 51 days by FBI. Toni Morrison receives the Nobel Prize literature.
1994 : Seism with Los Angeles (51 dead). Signature of the ALENA, agreement of Free trade with the Mexico and the Canada. Business Whitewater, investigation related to the investments immoniliers of Hillary Clinton.
1995 : the senate of the the Mississippi ratifies finally the 13th amendment of the Constitution of the United States, putting a term at slavery! Attack of Oklahoma City by disorganized Extremists of right-hand side.
1996 : re-election of Bill Clinton.
1998 : beginning of the Monicagate on January 21st.
1999 : death of Bill Bowerman, cofounder of the firm Nike. The legend tells that it had created the mythical shoe with… a waffle iron.
2000 : during the summer, violent ones fires devastate 13 States of the west, of the New Mexico at the Canadian border. In December: George W. Bush becomes the 43e president of the United States.
2001 : September 11th, the United States is victims of the greatest attack Terroriste of the world history. Four civil aircrafts diverted and flown by Kamikaze S are crushed on the Twin Towers of New York, the building of the Pentagone to Washington and the last close to Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania before to have achieved its goal. The psychological shock is world and the assessment is very heavy: nearly 4.000 died and as many casualties.

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